Rules of the badminton

Rules common to simple and the double

TossingWith the badminton, any match begin with the "toss". This one can be carried out various manners, but more current consists, for the referee, to pose the shuttle on the net in balance, then to drop it. Once on the ground, the stopper appoints the player or the team who will be able in first to carry out a choice. This last goes on one or the other of the two following parameters: service, either to choose to serve or to receive, or the ground, choose to remain on its half-ground or to change half-ground. Once the decision of the first player announced, his adversary can make choose the remaining parameter.

The matchIn women and man simple play as in double, a match is gained in two gaining sets. For the 5 disciplines (Men simple play, Women simple play, Men double play, Women double play and Mixed double), a set is won by the first team which reach in first 21 points, knowing that the team which gains the exchange marks the point.In the event of equality with 20/20, the set is prolonged and it is the team who leads by 2 points which gains the set.If the score reaches 29/29, the set is gained by the team which marks the 30th point.After the first set, the players change half-ground. When it required there to dispute a third set, they have to change at 11 points.The team or the player with the service in the second and if necessary in the third set is the one which gained the preceding set.

Counting of points and principal faults

CountingThe team which gains the exchange marks the point, which it is with the service or not.

L_FAUTESAn exchange is considered lost when a player makes a fault. Those can be several orders :

when a player sends the shuttle :

out of the limits of the ground, knowing that the lines form integral part of this last;

with the ceiling, on a wall, a person outside the ground;

in or under the net.

when a player or a team :

does not manage to touch the shuttle. This last fall then into the surface of play;

does not manage in only one striking to return the shuttle in the unfavourable ground;

invades the unfavourable ground by its body or its racket;

touch the net by its body or its racket;

results itself of kind in voluntarily distracting its adversary;

acts in an offensive way.

when the player with the service :

have a foot in contact with a line while it is serving;

raise one of its feet at the time of the service: a part of each foot must always remain in contact with the ground;

send the shuttle outside the service zone;

do not carry out a continuous gesture of the back forwards while serving;

serve with the head of his racket which is not clearly under the level of the hand at the time of the impact;

strike the shuttle on the level or above the level of the size.

Rules specific to simple

Surface playIn a man or women simple, the game proceeds on a ground excluding the side corridors :

Zone of service The server serve in diagonal in a square delimited by the service line and the bottom of the court.

Placement with the serviceTo know in which zone to place itself at the service or in return of service, it is necessary to refer to the score of the player to the service: when the score is an even number, the server and the receiver place themselves in the zone of service on the right of their ground. Conversely, when the score is odd, they are placed in the zone of left.

Change of serviceFrom the moment when the server loses the exchange, the service passes to its adversary.

Rules specific to the double

Surface play In a men, women or mixed double, the game is held on the totality of the ground :

Zone of service The server in double must serve between the service line and the service line of double :

Placement with the service

At the beginning of the set and when the server score is an even number, the server serve in the zone of service on the right.

When the server score is an odd number, the server serve in the zone of service on the left.

The last server on the receiver side must remain in the same zone of service where he served in the last.

The players change zone of service only when they mark a point as a server.

Change of serviceFrom the moment when the server loses the exchange, the service passes to its adversary.